Hi everyone. Im fairly new to the stationary engines, but so far I'm enjoying every minute of working on them (except when they refuse to co-operate ).

I bought these two engines on eBay in autumn last year, thinking they were both Mk 40's. I planned to make one functioning engine out of two non-functioning engines.

However, the first one arrived and it wasn't what the seller had advertised. Unfortunately, it was also somewhat damaged in transit. One of the feet on the oil sump had smashed off, the inlet manifold had snapped, the air filter had been crushed and I recently discovered that the crankcase had been pretty much shattered too.

I have put the Mk 40 HS in the garage for now to work on in a few months or so, but the Mk 20 is coming along brilliantly! It's fully dismantled, cleaned and all of the spare parts have been ordered and should be arriving on Monday. Got to send a few parts off to be sand blasted too, but they should be back by Tuesday.

I shall post a few pictures of my progress in the next few days, and I will keep this updated as I finish the build and start on the bigger task of the Mk 40 HS!

Thanks,Chris

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hi there if you need any help or advice just message it here or pm/mp or email from box on right of this as i have worked on many villiers over the years and have shelves of saved good parts ,castings ect from the many unsalvagablesand the manuals arnt always clear to work from on some areas as i learned with expearence kev

Full on restoration I think. Definately for the Mk 20, had to replace loads.

Been tinkering with the Mk 40 today, and I nearly got it going, but I cant seem to get the fuel to go through the carb properly. It was firing when I was spraying fuel through the air intake, but it wouldn't go when the fuel was going through the carb as it should.

It's sparking really well now that I've cleaned the points, cleaned the coil connections and replaced the HT lead (that I completely broke).

Had the carb apart today, cleaned it all out, got the right setting for the needle and got the throttle and air intake open too.

Its the Zenith carb on, anyone have any ideas how to get it firing?

(I don't actually know if everything is there on the carb, I think it is though)

Well, I neglected to check if the compression was there. Turns out there was absolutely none. So we took the head off and found the exhaust valve rusted open. Cleaned it up and got it moving again, put it back together and it started up first pull!

Just need to get this Mk 20 done and then I can do the restoration of the Mk 40!

its always the most obvious things you forget, i guess everyone thinks their so obvious you can't possibly forget! LOL anyway well done with that. now that you've got it going are you going to strip it down and paint it or paint it with it in one piece?

callum

_________________if it ain't broke it doesn't have any special features yet.

Well, looks like the Mk 20 is going to be firing by the end of the day. Been working on it on Friday and Saturday night, and its pretty much there. My dad wont let me try to start it though without him there as he doesn't want me to hurt myself.

My original crankcase, with the deep canyon running through it.

The cylinder and flywheel before I sent them off to the sandblasters.

New oil sump all kitted out and ready to go.

Time to start putting stuff together!

It was at this stage that I went through about 6 hours of putting stuff together then taking it apart again when I forgot to put parts in that needed to go in first. I would have taken photos, but I was so frustrated that I probably would have ended up throwing my phone off a wall.

The results so far of all my pain and suffering. The engine as of Saturday night. Nothing painted yet, I want to make sure it actually works before I do the cosmetic stuff. You should be able to see the fab work the sandblasters did on the flywheel, cylinder and cylinder head. They look fresh out of the foundry!

If, or should I say when I get it firing later on today, I shall see if I can make a video.